CARVIN QUADX Operation & User’s Manual

35, Printing Instructions Manual Name: Quad X-Amp User's Guide Manual No.: 76-00101D Revision Date: 17APR96 1. The Covers are to be printed on Carvin's standard weight, beige colored, card stock. 2. The front cover is to be printed on the front side only. (master sheet 1) 3. The insid…

29, stages gave more depth, and eleven stages even more. Beyond this point the extremely high gain of the system became a problem, but we determined that eleven stages would be manageable. The resulting overdrive sound has a depth and a degree of complexity never achieved before. With eleve…

28, CARVIN QUADX when overdriven was simply an accident. This meant that the only way to get distortion effects was to play at a very loud volume. Soon technicians discovered that they could add a master volume control between the preamp and the power amp stages of guitar amps in order to provide a volume c…

18, The Cabinet Voicing Switch This switch inserts Carvin's Cabinet Voicing™ circuit to add the frequency response coloration of a 4x12 guitar speaker stack. This effect is intended to be used whenever you are not playing through "guitar speakers". Use it when recording d…

24, 4.4 Effects Suggestions Now that you have your basic Preamp/Power Amp/Speaker setup let's start evaluating effects configurations. Digital Multi-Effects Unit You probably want to patch your most versatile multi-effects unit into the master effects loop so that you will have it avai…

27, Section 6 About Tubes 6.0 A Brief History of Tubes The history of vacuum tubes began in 1883 when Thomas Edison discovered that the hot filament in his light bulb was boiling off electrons. This Edison effect (known today as thermionic emission) was to become the basis of the operati…